French police fire tear gas, arrest dozens as nation braces for another weekend of protests
Authorities mobilized 70,000 officers as unions and students pressed demands over living costs and school funding, while businesses boarded up and museums closed.
- French security forces fired tear gas and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Saturday as authorities deployed over 70,000 police officers nationwide to head off a second consecutive weekend of violent civil unrest.
- The renewed clashes follow last weekend's massive cost-of-living demonstrations that resulted in more than 2,700 arrests, over 600 injured officers, and hundreds of millions of euros in property damage across nearly 3,000 looted or vandalized businesses.
- Protests originally sparked by high school students demonstrating against deteriorating classroom conditions quickly expanded into a broad anti-government movement fueled by soaring inflation linked to ongoing Middle East conflict supply disruptions.
- Cross-Party and student groups organized sit-ins and rallies outside city halls and Parliament condemning President Emmanuel Macron's "authoritarian drift," while a parallel counter-protest gathered in Orléans against Marine Le Pen's National Rally congress.
- Major retailers and cultural institutions across Paris barricaded storefronts as organizers called for continued demonstrations, with interior officials warning that radical groups intend to exploit peaceful gatherings to ignite further street violence.
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France deploys 70,000 police to try to contain nationwide protests
Demonstrators took to the streets of France on Saturday under the watch of 70,000 police officers, with unrest appearing markedly less severe than a week earlier despite scattered confrontations in several cities. Tens of thousands of people marched peacefully through the French capital, according to police numbers, denouncing the high cost of living and accusing […]
The demonstrations in Paris have reached their final station. Now, anxiety is bubbling as thousands of people have gathered in one place. The police are using water cannons and urging people in megaphones to leave. – There are a lot of people now and it is unclear where people are going. Two directions are blocked by police, says Expressen's reporter on the spot, Maria Rydhagen.
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PARIS (ANP/AFP) - French police have intervened in protests in several cities. Tear gas was deployed in Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, and Nice, among others. In the latter two cities, police also used a water cannon, according to Le Parisien. Demonstrations are taking place throughout almost all of France on Saturday...
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